Rifle-cleaning-rod tip



April 7, 1925. I 1,532,222

w. s. BELDING RIFLE CLEANING ROD TIP Filed Aug. 12, 1924 lNVENTOR ATTORNEY letented Apr. 7,. 1925.,

WARREN S. 'BELIDING, OE PHILIPSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA..

RIFLE-CLEANING-BOD TIP.

Application filed. August 12, 1924. Serial No. 731,560.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Hanan S. Bnnnnvc, a citizen of the United States of America.

' residing at lhilipsburgt Center, County,

' Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rifle-Cleaning-Rod Tips, of which the following is a specifi cation.

This invention relates to improvements in orconnected with cleaning rods for rifles and other firing pieces.

As is well known modern rifle cleaning is done from the breach. not from the muzzle. This is to avoid wearing the edee of the muzzle. clean from the breach because after removing the bolt there remains the case around the bolt, usually called the receiver, which is usually from at to 6 inches in length. In passing throughthis receiver the cleaning patch of cloth is easily dislodged from the tip of the cleaning rod.

With the object of avoiding the displacement of the cleaning patch. the present 1nvention provides a tip for a cleaning rod having a. sharp point on which the patch can be stabbed prior to its entry into the receiver and which tip at the same time is provided with means whereby, when the cleaning rod is retracted, the patch will still be held firmly in position.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the embodiment of the invention now to be described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a tip for a cleaning rod constructed according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of Fig. 1 showing the tip on a considerably enlarged scale; and,

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

As will be seen from the drawings the tip, the subject-matter of the present invention.

Bolt action rifles are difficult to tion of its len th, as indicated at 3. which diameter is preferably the same as that usually given to clcaningrods. that is to say. something less than the diameter of the borev of the ride through which it is intended to be passed. Integral with and beyond the portion 3. the tip for some distance is made of reduced diameter. as-at a. and projecting from this reduced port on are a plurality of integral spaced-apart rings or collars 5. Be-- yond these collars the tip is again given its normal diameter in the form of an integral cap 6. The spaces between the different c0llars andthe space between the cap and the collar adjacent thereto are preferably equal but'may be varied as may be found necessary or desirable. Projecting from the'cap' 6 is an integral centrally disposed pin 7 provided with a sharp point 8 onwhich the cleaning patch which-tor example, may take the form of the usual piece of flannel; may

be stabbed; thus the patch is firmly secured in placeby the aid of said point and is so held in passing the rod through the receiver of a rifle and subsequently through the bore thereof.

The spaced-apart rings or collars 5 are provided for gripping the patch on the movement of the tip in the opposite direction through the bore and breach of the rifie that is to say, on its retraction. The present tip therefore provides means whereby the patch can be held in place on the tip during the movement of the cleaning rod in both the directions, that is to say, as it is pushed forward through the receiver and thence into the bore of the rifle and on its movement in the opposite direction to withdraw it first from the bore and then from the receiver.

The diameter of the cap 6 is preferablycleaning patch. This should be obvious he I cause when the patch is stabbed on the point 8 and is then folded back over the cap 6 and over one or more of the collars 5 it will completely encircle the cap and therefore two layers thereof will be interposed between the bore and said cap, that is to say, one layer at either end of a line passing diametrically through the longitudinal axis of the tip, g

The collars 5 are preferably made of a diameter slightly less than the diameter of the cap, for example, they may be made the d1 alneter of the bore of therifle minus three timesthe thicknessof the cleaning patch;

By the above construction ithas been found in practice that the patch is kept nicely and evenly in contact With the Walls of the bore of a rifle during its movement in both directions therethrough, with the re-,, sult that the cleaning of said bore can be ef-v fected in a Very efficient manner with a minimum of strokes, damage to the bore being thus avoided. I c

Having now described: my'invention, What I claim and desire to securehy Letters Pat:

ent is: v V V 1. In a rifle-cleaning rod tip, a cap at one extremity of said tip, a centrally disposed pointed ,pin projecting from one face oi'said cap, a reduced portion extending from the opposite vface of said cap, a plurality of spaced-apart collars formed on said reduced portion, and means for securing saidtip to V a cleaning rod at the other extremity of: said tip. v c r 2, In a riflecleaning rod tip, a cap at one extremity of said tip, a centrally disposed pointed pin projecting from one face ofsaid cap, avreduced portion extending from the opposite face of said cap, ;a plurality of spacedeapart collars formed onsaid reduced portion, RHCl IDQzI DS-fOI SBCUlIIIg said tip to a cleaning rod at the other extremity of said- 'tip,' sai d cap having a diameter'equal to the diameter of the rifle bore less twice the ,thicknessnof the cleaning patch and said threaded portion at the other extremityof the tip. whereby the tip can besecured to the remainder of the rod.

LA tip for cleaning rods comprisinga circular piece oifimetal having acap of the diameter of a rifle less twice the thickness of the usual patch, a pin having "a sharp point formed inte ral with and oroiectin J a L from one face of said cap, acplurality of spaced-apart collars formed integral with and projecting from a reducedport on of said tip, and means forconnecting said tip; to the remainder eta cleaning rod, saidw pin being adapted/to :hold the patch in place during its njiovenient through the receiver and bore of the rifle and said collars being adapted to holdsaid patch i'n'position during the movementfof the tip through the bore and receiver in the oppositedirection.

In testimony .VlleIGOf I have signed my. name to this specification.

- America s. summer, 

